Update 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 6
A reader submitted these photos of the protests on I-95.
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Traffic
The Route 3 Business bridge over the Rappahannock River, also known as Chatham Bridge, will close to traffic for an improvement project beginning on Monday, June 22.
The bridge connecting Stafford County and the City of Fredericksburg will close to traffic at approximately 5 a.m. Monday, June 22.
Update 12:19 p.m.
Tripoli Boulevard is reopened.
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Update 3:07 p.m.
From VDOT:
A tree fell onto a minivan traveling on Interstate 95 in North Stafford.
Emergency crews were called about 12:25 p.m. after someone called and report the tree fell across the left and middle lane of the northbound side of the highway, just south of mile post 143.
As Chair of the Board of PRTC, I understand the importance of providing reliable, safe, and efficient transportation for residents around Prince William County and the D.C. area. The goal of our transit services – The OmniRide and the Virginia Railway Express (VRE) – has always been to get residents where they need to go while reducing congestion. OmniRide and the VRE rely heavily on our transit employees to help carry out these goals. Now with COVID-19 critically impacting our economy, our transit workers are even more vital in providing critical transportation services.
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They left the area. Now they’re back.
Police are now working to close a portion of U.S. Route 29 in Gainesville as protestors are filing down an exit ramp from Linton Hall Road and walking onto the six-lane thoroughfare that connects Interstate 66 and Charlottesville 81 miles to the south.
The Fredericksburg City Council just approved a $545,000 plan to fix up the asphalt and pave over sections of William Street and Blue and Gray Parkway.
The William Street section will stretch from the Blue and Gray Parkway to Washington Avenue by the city cemetery.
The driver of a motorcycled was killed while feeling police in Dale City, police said.
The crash occurred at 11:25 p.m. on Thursday, May 28, when Virginia State Police Trooper, D.A. Bragg, ordered two motorcyclists to stop for reckless driving while traveling on Minnieville Road, According to a Virginia State Police spokeswoman.
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The Prince William police have identified the driver of a 2006 GMC Sierra that was involved in a fatal crash in Manassas.
Demetrius Lamar Whitehead, 29, of Woodbridge, was involved in a crash that occurred on May 24 at 5:07 a.m. in the area of Davis Ford Road near Yates Ford Road near Manassas.